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Interview with John Clifford
- Title
- Interview with John Clifford [sound recording]
- Author
- Clifford, John, 1947-
- Publication
- 1972.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Audio | Supervised use | *MGZTL 4-688 no. 7, tracks 8-15 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance |
Not available - Please for assistance. | Audio | Supervised use | *MGZTD 4-688 no. 7, tracks 8-15 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Rogosin, Elinor.
- Description
- 1 sound disc (ca. 37 min.) : digital; 4 3/4 in.
- Summary
- [Introductory remarks by host, Elinor Rogosin.] John Clifford, dancer and choreographer with the New York City Ballet, speaks with Elinor Rogosin about dancing in [Peter Martins'] ballet Piano rag-music; his own ballets including his work Symphony in E flat; his view of himself as a disciple of George Balanchine; differences between how Balanchine and Jerome Robbins approach choreographing; his admiration for Balanchine's use of music including, for example, in Rubies [the middle section from Balanchine's ballet Jewels]; Balanchine's encouragement of his choreographing; the mechanics of choreographing including Clifford's approach to music and choosing the dancers; working with Peter Martins and Gelsey Kirkland on Symphony in E flat for the 1972 Stravinsky Festival; Merrill Ashley including the reasons he preferred her performance over Kirkland's in Symphony in E flat; more on the mechanics of his choreographing; his background as a child actor and dancer on stage and television; studying with Maya Plisetskaya; his first professional choreography job, when he was 15; Robbins' and Balanchine's different views of Clifford's pronounced musicality when performing their works; the New York City Ballet as a learning experience preparatory to coming into his own as a choreographer elsewhere, apart from Balanchine [music and closing remarks by Rogosin].
- Donor/Sponsor
- Gift of Elinor Rogosin. Oral History Archive.
- Uniform Title
- Dance focus (Radio program)
- Subjects
- Note
- Host: Elinor Rogosin. Broadcast November 2, 1972 by radio station, WBAI, New York on the series Dance focus. The interview with John Clifford is on tracks 8-15 (ca. 37 min.). Tracks 1-7 (ca. 33 min.) contain an interview with Erick Hawkins.
- This interview was used as the basis of a chapter in Elinor Rogosin's book, The dance makers (Walker, New York, 1980)
- Call Number
- *MGZTL 4-688 no. 7, tracks 8-15
- OCLC
- NYPY847015193-R
- Author
- Clifford, John, 1947- Interviewee
- Title
- Interview with John Clifford [sound recording]
- Imprint
- 1972.
- Original Version
- Original format: 1 sound cassette, side B (ca. 37 min.: 1 7/8 in. per sec.). Originally recorded in 1972.
- Local Note
- Former call no.: *MGZTC 3-688 reel 7, side B
- Local Subject
- Audiotapes -- Clifford, J.
- Added Author
- Rogosin, Elinor. Interviewer
- Added Title
- Dance focus (Radio program)
- Research Call Number
- *MGZTL 4-688 no. 7, tracks 8-15